Why the beauty and inventiveness of contemporary masonry in Iran has captured Western audiences.

A Q&A with Stephanie Wambugu on female friendship, orthodoxy, and her debut novel

In Dubai.

In April 2024, Columbia’s administration brought in the New York Police Department to dismantle the tents that had been set up by pro-Palestinian protesters occupying the university’s South Lawn.

Michael Clune’s novel of a panicked teen who might be possessed by a Greek god – Jessi Jezewska Stevens

I was very disappointed to find that the book read as if the contents of MacMahon’s collected ESPN articles were dumped into a large language model, and directed to write a 300-plus page book about...

An interview with Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

The novelist and screenwriter works in a mode he calls “urban panorama”—a sociologically rich depiction of the tensions of city life.

Zohran Mamdani’s NYC.

In the first instalment of a major contribution to the reconceptualization of a post-capitalist social order, Aaron Benanav marshals insights from a long century of socialist thought and practice—C...

Interview with the Brazilian critic and theorist on the literary and political ideas informing his epic play, Queen Lira. A volatile cacophony of voices disputing his country’s path, from Dilma’s...

The Italian writer, once Mussolini’s pet propagandist and later a literary cult hero, was an unmatched chronicler of Europe’s horrors.